Comparison

trickle vs Feedwright

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

trickle

A podcast player and feed reader with a unique dark cyberpunk interface. It allows users to stream or download episodes, manage playback, and read various feed types including RSS, Atom, and JSON. Public YouTube videos can be watched without ads.

Highlights
  • Podcast search and subscription
  • Stream or download episodes
  • Customizable playback queue
  • Global playback speed control
  • Sleep timers and playback skipping
  • Read RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
  • Follow YouTube channels and Nostr profiles
Features
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trickle is a podcast player and feed reader with a dark cyberpunk interface. Podcasts • Search the Apple Podcasts catalog and view shows before subscribing • Stream or download episodes • Build and reorder your Up next queue • Resume from saved progress • Use global playback speeds from 1x to 2x • Set sleep timers, bookmarks, intro skip, and outro skip • Search timed transcripts and tap a segment to seek • Read chapters and show notes • Control playback from the Lock Screen • See download storage and remove played or all downloads Feeds • Read RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed • Follow public YouTube channels and playlists • Follow verified posts from Nostr profiles • Read articles in a clean reader view • Save readable article text for offline use • Search, filter, and sort a source or category • Group non-podcast sources into categories • Share a feed or website to trickle from another app Public YouTube videos play without ads when supported, with the official player as a fallback. Use Picture in Picture to keep listening while using other apps or when the screen is locked. Import and export OPML files, or make a local backup of your subscriptions and app data. trickle does not collect your information.

About

Feedwright

Features
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Feedwright reads feeds and keeps an eye on pages. No account, everything on your device. WHAT FEEDWRIGHT DOES Read feeds RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, Reddit and YouTube channels, none of them requiring a login. Bring your sources from another reader over as an OPML file, from Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire or Feeder. A feed from any page Paste an address and you are done. If the site has no feed, Feedwright builds one from the page itself. New articles arrive unread, like everything else. Keep an eye on a page Pages without articles can be added too: a pricing page, a job listing, a changelog. Feedwright reports when something there changes. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the device decides whether a change means anything, so a new date or a cookie notice is not reported. Reader view Articles open without ads, cookie banners or waiting. You set the typeface, size, line spacing and theme. Read aloud Any article can be read out loud, with Lock Screen controls. Siri and Spotlight "What's new?" gets answered without the app ever opening. WHAT DOES NOT HAPPEN No account, no sign-up. Everything runs on your device. No ads, no recommendations, no ranking by popularity. No data collection, no analytics. FREE AND PLUS Free: 15 sources. A source is a feed or a watched page. Includes every reading feature, OPML import and export. Feedwright Plus: unlimited sources, rules to highlight or mute individual words, Family Sharing for up to six people. The subscription runs until you cancel it and is managed in App Store settings. Questions and bugs: support@kornelius.org Privacy policy: https://kornelius.org/feedwright/datenschutz Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

trickle4 screens
Feedwright4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: trickle at every 2 days against Feedwright's every 6 days. trickle also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

trickle ships an update every 2 days, Feedwright every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
trickle versus Feedwright: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertrickleFeedwright
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperParmesh KrishenKornelius Brunner

In-app purchases

None

trickle

No in-app purchases

None

Feedwright

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is trickle free?
trickle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feedwright free?
Feedwright is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do trickle or Feedwright have ads?
Neither trickle nor Feedwright shows ads.
Which is updated more often, trickle or Feedwright?
trickle ships an update every 2 days, and Feedwright every 6 days. Most recently, trickle was updated on October 8, 2026 and Feedwright on October 20, 2026.

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